Celebrate National Love Your Pet Day February 20 Actually, celebrate Love Your Pet Day every Friday, if you prefer! Professionally trained helper animals—such as guide dogs for the blind—offer obvious benefits to humans. However, the average domestic pet, such as a dog,...

SNAP Joins Dozens of Local Rescue Groups to Spay/Neuter Hundreds of Pets at March Event March 26 and 27, 2014. SNAP partnered with Planned Pet Hood to take part in a March Spay/Neuter Day event – transporting and spay/neutering 67 local pets at a Duluth veterinary clinic....

The United States has a feral cat crisis. Some estimates place the population of feral cats at around 60 million, but nobody really knows how many there are. They’re descendents of unsterilized pet cats who are either abandoned or who strayed from home. We’ve created the...

Spay/Neuter Programs Work! Low-cost, high-quality, high-volume, spay and neuter and return (TNR) programs play a vital role in controlling the cat and dog overpopulation problem in Georgia and nationwide. This is true both for feral cat and dog populations, but also for...

Mass target TNR (Trap Neuter Release) Community Program in Dekalb County. Best Friends has been officially helping the cats of DeKalb County, Georgia, through our cat initiatives since August, 2011. The cornerstone of this community cat program is the public/private...

"Why SNAP?"

SNAP is a non-profit 501c3 animal rescue group dedicated to curbing the problem of dog and cat overpopulation in Georgia. Through advocacy and implementation of county-wide and local TNR programs, low-cost spay/neutering clinics, wellness services, rescue and adoption programs and education and outreach, we hope to sterilize, not euthanize, local home & neighborhood cat & dog populations, saving lives & money.

Trouble in Georgia

Everyday in Georgia thousands of homeless pets are put to death, costing Georgia taxpayers an estimated $1 million each week.There must be a better, more humane approach that would both curb this senseless slaughter and more humanely save Georgia taxpayers millions.We estimate that by pursuing aggressive Trap – Spay/Neuter and Release (TNR) programs, this misspent money could be cut to one quarter of the current budget – an estimated savings to Georgia taxpayers of over $40 million annually.

SNAP’s Mission

SNAP is dedicated to curbing the dog and cat overpopulation problem in Georgia through making spay/neutering services as widely available as possible.

Through the implementation of the county and local TNR programs and by helping to provide wellness services, rescue and adoption programs and education and outreach, we hope to reach our goal of saving lives and money.

We are a Georgia-based 501c3 non-profit organization sustained entirely from grants, donations and the generous and tireless work and support of our many volunteers.

Our Rescue Work

“Animal rescue work can be immensely satisfying, gratifying and devastating, all at the same time.

“You deal with the unknown, the hurt, the hungry, the lonely. And you simply cannot save them all.

“You give love and get love back from these very special animals many fold in return.

“But every once in a while, you come across an animal that really touches your heart and you form a special bond that makes the work transcendent.”